Hydrogeology of three hard rock catchments in Britain by Mazadu Dader Bako

“…The ground water regimes of three small, undisturbed (natural) and accessible hard rock catchments representing the South, Midlands and the North of Great Britain have been hydrogeologically investigated and compared. …”
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Correlation studies of fluoride with alkalinity and hardness by G. Karthikeyan, Anitha Pius, S. Meenakshi

“…All available drinking water sources of the villages belonging to these three blocks were chemically examined to estimate the quality parameters like pH, Total hardness(TH), Total alkalinity(TA), fluoride, sulphate, chloride and chemical oxygen demand(COD). …”
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Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: matches played on hard court by Ben Lane, Paul Sherratt, Xiao Hu, Andy Harland

“…Ball tracking information taken from three consecutive years of an ATP 250 tour event played on hard court were analysed. …”
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Between a rock and a hard place: The development of Chinese tabloid television by Lian Zhu

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An intelligent novel tripartite - (PSO-GA-SA) optimization strategy by Kay Owa, Lisa Jackson, Tom Jackson

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Investigating the use of low-cost tactile sensor in emulating mechanoreceptor patterns and in hardness-based classification by Yash Sharma, Pedro Ferreira, Laura Justham, Matthew Beatty

“…And further using raw sensor data and digital spike patterns data as additional feature to performs analysis. Outcome of hardness-based classification with 20% test size data indicates that spike patterns data can increase predictability accuracy score in different combination of sensors data where with three sensors it remains highest of 93.9% improved from 91.8%. …”
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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as hard templates for preparing mesoporous zeolite Y assemblies with high catalytic activity by Samer Abdulridha, Jiuxing Jiang, Shaojun Xu, Zhaoxia Zhou, He Liang, Boyang Mao, Yangtao Zhou, Arthur A Garforth, Yilai Jiao, Xiaolei Fan

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Improving visual-semantic embeddings by learning semantically-enhanced hard negatives for cross-modal information retrieval by Yan Gong, Georgina Cosma

“…Most existing VSE networks are trained by adopting a hard negatives loss function which learns an objective margin between the similarity of relevant and irrelevant image–description embedding pairs. …”
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Between 'soft power' and a hard place: European Union Foreign and Security Policy between the Islamic world and the United States by Michael Smith

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Comparison of player perceptions to mechanical measurements of third generation synthetic turf football surfaces by David Cole, Paul Fleming, Jonathan Roberts, David James, Mickael Benetti, Katharina Wistel, Johsan Billingham, Steph Forrester

“…It is further recommended that the Advanced Artificial Athlete adopts a new algorithm to improve the accuracy of the surface’s Vertical Deformation and Energy Restitution, and the number of drops is reduced from three to one.…”
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Supplementary information files for Comparison of player perceptions to mechanical measurements of third generation synthetic turf football surfaces by David Cole, Paul Fleming, Jonathan Roberts, David James, Mickael Benetti, Katharina Wistel, Johsan Billingham, Steph Forrester

“…It is further recommended that the Advanced Artificial Athlete adopts a new algorithm to improve the accuracy of the surface’s Vertical Deformation and Energy Restitution, and the number of drops is reduced from three to one.…”
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“There’s no Confidence in Multiple-Choice Testing, ……” by P. Davies

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Contact damage of ceramics and ceramic nanocomposites by James Wade

“…In the monolithic ceramics, the indenter penetration was found to be shallower in materials of higher hardness. However, the nanocomposite materials displayed an opposing trend, the indenter penetration becoming deeper in the samples of higher hardness. …”
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DIBR zero-watermarking based on invariant feature and geometric rectification by Xiyao Liu, Yayun Zhang, Sibo Du, Jian Zhang, Ming Jiang, Hui Fang

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Fracture toughness of a zirconia engineering ceramic and the effects thereon of surface processing with fibre laser radiation by Pratik P. Shukla, Jonathan Lawrence, Houzheng Wu

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Laser shock processing of polycrystalline diamond: experimental and numerical studies by Priyanka Ghosh

“…A correlation between the surface modification, microhardness and phase shifts in PCD was evident, thereby establishing a connection between phase transition, hardness and laser fluence.This thesis brings forth a multi-scale approach that is integrated with dry surface analyses for the characterisation of PCD composites before and after laser shock processing, combining atomic force microscopy (AFM) at nano scale. …”
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A three-fold framework for understanding HRM practices in South-Eastern European SMEs by Alexandros Psychogios, Leslie Thomas Szamosi, Rea Prouska, Christopher Brewster

“…Originality/value – HRM in SMEs in this region has hardly been studied at all despite their importance. …”
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Comparison of constitutive relationships based on kinetic theory of granular gas for three dimensional vibrofluidized beds by Nadeem A. Sheikh

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Effect of isoenergetic substitution of cheese with other dairy products on blood lipid markers in the fasted and postprandial state: an updated and extended systematic review and m... by Rebecca Pradeilles, Tom Norris, Laury Sellem, Oonagh Markey

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Trends in political television fiction in the UK: themes, characters and narratives, 1965-2009 by Liesbet van Zoonen, Dominic Wring

“…We identify and discuss three genres in which UK political TV fiction has been shaped throughout the decades: comedy, thriller and drama. …”
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Persuasion in the digital age: a theoretical model of persuasion in terse text by Stefanie Anja Hills

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Information about medicines for patients in europe: To impede or to empower? by Karel van der Waarde

“…For patients, it is often very hard to understand and to apply information in a specific situation. …”
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Aspects of computerised timetabling by Zuhaimy H. Ismail

“…Constructing a timetable is a hard and time consuming task which is carried out repeatedly thus a computer program for assisting with this problem would be of great value. …”
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The lived religion approach in the sociology of religion and its implications for secular feminist analyses of religion by Line Nyhagen

“…It starts out by proposing three different secular feminist positions on religion: a hard, a mixed hard and soft, and a soft position. …”
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Tell me your story: starting conversations about poverty in England by Bethany Eckley, Matt Padley

“…In this report we share three stories that show how complex life can be for ordinary people on a low income - the challenging situations they face and the hard decisions that need to be taken in difficult financial circumstances.…”
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EU economic integration agreements, Brexit and trade by Marie M Stack, Martin Bliss

“…Finally, in generating the predicted values for the trade effects of three alternative counterfactual Brexit scenarios (hard Brexit, hard Brexit plus, global Britain), the findings suggest an asymmetric effect depending on the perspective of the UK versus the EU. …”
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Technology appropriation awareness and identification by Liliana Rodriguez

“…Minor contributions explained in chapter 10 are: A taxonomy of TA services (pro-active / re-active / inactive), an account of the Key Aspects of TA Awareness, a Typology of TA Outcomes (Soft TA, Hard TA, and Hard & Soft), and a revised classification of TA Impact and TA levels. …”
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ACT-UK simulation centre: opportunities and challenges for research by Robby Soetanto

“…The conceptual framework stands on three key sequential stages of pre-, on- and post-training, with one or more research themes in each stage. …”
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Barriers to domestic retrofit – learning from past home improvement experiences by Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines, Val Mitchell

“…If the UK is to meet its carbon reduction targets, it will be necessary to retrofit energy saving measures into the majority of homes. With approximately three quarters of the houses that will exist in 2050 already built, this presents an enormous task. …”
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Dynamical density functional theory for the segregation and drying of binary colloidal dispersions by Boshen He

“…Firstly, we treat the three dimensional (3D) mixture as being a mixture of hard-spheres with density profiles that vary only in the direction perpendicular to the substrate, reducing the system to a 1D model. …”
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Monitoring physical activity in children by Lorraine Cale

“…Every effort was made in designing the self-report, to address as many of the problems associated with the current measures as possible, and thereby to design an instrument which may improve upon existing measures. …”
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Confucianism and capitalist development in the East Asian newly industrialised societies by Kuan Li

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Geodesics on the ellipsoid and monodromy by C.M. Davison, Holger R. Dullin, Alexey Bolsinov

“…After reviewing the properties of the geodesic flow on the three dimensional ellipsoid with distinct semi-axes, we investigate the three-dimensional ellipsoid with the two middle semi-axes being equal, corresponding to a Hamiltonian invariant under rotations. …”
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What causes accidents? by Alistair G.F. Gibb, Roger Haslam, Diane E. Gyi, Sophie Hide, Roy Duff

“…This paper describes aspects of the findings of a three-year research project, Construction Accident Causality, funded by the UK Health and Safety Executive. …”
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Principles and practices for the application of systems engineering to heterogeneous research partnerships by Samantha F. Robitaille

“…The thesis reviews literature drawn from a broad body of work covering three main areas: the context of HRPs themselves, systems engineering and related disciplines, and research methodology. …”
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Machining in composite/metal stacks: conventional vs. ultrasonically-assisted drilling by Peace Onawumi

“…The developed process appeared to improve drilling in the CFRP/Ti stack, with enhanced surface quality observed, reducing (or, in some cases, eliminating) damages induced during the drilling process in comparison to CD, with a two-to-three-fold reduction in the surface roughness.…”
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Implicit soft rock material models by Nia Mair Fry, Matthew Profit, Chenfeng Li

“…This work focuses on 1) developing an implicit nonlinear material model (implicit SR3 material model) suitable for a range of isotropic soft/hard rocks, 2) a comparison of three coupling schemesstaggered implicit-explicit coupling, sequential implicit-implicit coupling, fully monolithic implicitimplicit coupling; with particular application to geomechanical and oil industry problems such as wellbore stability and fault formation. …”
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Accelerating numerical applications using ESL methodologies by Yibin Li

“…Therefore, addressing the demand of numerical application with ESL methodology becomes the motivation of this thesis. Three cases presented in this thesis are TLM, FFT and Smith–Waterman. …”
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Project identification in Tanzania by Eddie James

“…(Ref 1) The emphasis was to be on sustainability and minimal hard currency input. In total 15 projects were identified ranging from potable water supply to AIDS orphans assistance. …”
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Integer programming and heuristic methods for the cell formation problem with part machine sequencing by Grammatoula Papaioannou

“…Due to the nature of the mathematical IP modelling for Cell Formation two main drawbacks can be identified: (a) Cell Formation is considered to be a complex and difficult combinatorial optimisation problem or in other words NP-hard (Non-deterministic Polynomial time hard) problem and (b) because of the deterministic nature of mathematical programming the decision maker is required to specify precisely goals and constraints. …”
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Is there a pervasive world real credit cycle? by Vitor Castro, Pedro Cerqueira, Rodrigo Martins

“…For this analysis, we rely on an approximate factor model and on hard and fuzzy clustering methodologies. The results indicate that, for the whole sample, there are three common components to credit, one of these more pervasive and impacting most countries in the sample, particularly developed ones. …”
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Modelling of microstructural evolution in austempered ductile iron by Duncan C. Putman

“…These chilled ductile iron alloys can also be subjected to austenitisation and austempering heat treatments, therefore further improving the mechanical properties of the components core, whilst retaining the hard carbides present in the surface layers. This work encompasses three main areas: two are concerned with the production of generic microstructure models, which work in conjunction with thermodynamic modelling software MTDATA; and one relates to high temperature X-ray diffraction experiments. …”
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Compressibility and channel formation in sedimenting systems by Gareth Butt

“…Not all materials were found to be suitable to this form of imaging. Three primary materials, aragonite, calcite and talc were used, each exhibited random channelling, i.e. channel formation was not due to the presence of foreign bodies or externally induced. …”
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Security limitations of an authorized anonymous ID-based scheme for mobile communication by Raphael C.-W. Phan

“…In this article we discuss the security limitations of a recently proposed authorized anonymous ID-based scheme for mobile communications due to He et al. We present three example attacks an attacker could mount on the scheme, point out the weaknesses we exploited, and suggest how to counter them. …”
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A novel disturbance device for aerial manipulation experiments by Ben Marshall, James Knowles, Yunda Yan, Cunjia Liu

“…This paper experimentally compares three traditional observer designs and a baseline controller in two different operating conditions.…”
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Morphology and damping properties of triblock copolymer physical gels by Takahiro Matsuse

“…This study was conducted in order to develop damping materials for practical applications, such as insulators for compact disk players and hard drive disks. Three types of styrene-based triblock copolymers and various paraffinic oils were selected to produce physical gels with low modulus. …”
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Barriers to domestic retrofit: learning from past home improvement experiences by Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines, Val Mitchell

“…It highlights a range of interrelated and sometimes rather intangible barriers to making home improvements to older, hard-to-treat properties and suggests ways these barriers can be overcome. …”
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Interplay of size and Landau quantizations in the de Haas–van Alphen oscillations of metallic nanowires by A.S. Alexandrov, V.V. Kabanov, I.O. Thomas

“…We find that there exist two fundamental frequencies as opposed to the one found in bulk systems and the three frequencies found by AK with soft boundary counditions. …”
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